F-Secure Security Cloud in brief
F-Secure Security Cloud (later: Security Cloud) is a cloud-based digital threat analysis system operated by F-Secure Corporation. It consists of a constantly growing and evolving knowledge base of digital threats fed by data from client systems and automated threat analysis services.
The adoption of a cloud-based threat analysis service offers many benefits over traditional methods. Data accumulated from a large number of client nodes allows us to build an accurate, realtime picture of the global threat situation. This approach also allows us to faster utilize recently gathered threat intelligence to protect customers.
Products from F-Secure utilize Security Cloud to a varying degree. Traditional anti-malware products rely on a combination of local scanning engines and Security Cloud services. Products that are designed to be lightweight can rely solely on the Security Cloud for threat detection. The latter approach is used to reduce CPU, memory and network bandwidth usage on a client device.